{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F677de7a6-d70f-4398-b79d-16e5765cbe42","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"<iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" title=\"Does Your Choice of College Determine Your Success? Work in Sports Podcast\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" seamless src=\"http://player.captivate.fm/episode/677de7a6-d70f-4398-b79d-16e5765cbe42\"></iframe>","title":"Does Your Choice of College Determine Your Success? Work in Sports Podcast","description":"Where you choose to go to school is extremely important, but does it determine your career success? We investigate.\u00a0\u00a0Hi everybody, I\u2019m Brian Clapp, Director of Content for <a href=\"http://workinsports.com\">WorkinSports.com</a> and this is the Work in Sports podcast.I\u2019ll admit March Madness kind of snuck up on me this year. I was trying to book a guest for the show and her publicist said: \u201cShe\u2019s at the conference tournament all next week and then on the March madness \u2013 can we wait until after that?\u201dOf course, I played it off, sure sure sure, but in my head, I was thinking\u2026wait we\u2019re in March already?Then we sprung forward our clocks last night, so when I got up with my daughter this morning to take her to school it was pitch black\u2026 I\u2019m all out of whack.<a href=\"https://www.workinsports.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/qa_coverE.png\"></a>Tangent.I\u2019m a weirdo, so I decided to read a bunch of articles on this history purpose and <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/12/us/daylight-saving-time-farmers.html\">intention of the daylight savings shift.</a>I\u2019ve always thought that it was related to farming, more daylight hours for the farmers, which if you think about it makes no sense because farmers can regulate their schedule based on available sunlight, not what the clocks say\u2026 it\u2019s not like they punch in and punch out, and furthermore, it\u2019s not like changing the time on the clock provides more sunlight\u2026 it just hits at a different time of day.Anyway \u2013 I\u2019m enjoying this tangent so I\u2019m going to continue. Fact: people are more active in the daylight, which means they spend more money. Adding the hour of daylight to the evening, versus the morning, dramatically increases consumer spending.To tie this into sports \u2013 way back in 1986, when even I was only in 6th grade - \u00a0the golf industry argued that an extra month of daylight savings would increase their revenue by 200-400 million per year \u2013 just one month! Adjusted for today\u2019s economy that\u2019s 450 to 900 million for one month of daylight savings!You\u2019ll hear people share that it was a move to reduce energy consumption \u2013 the theory being people awake during the time of most daylight would result in fewer lights being turned on etc. \u2026but over time that has been debunked.<a href=\"http://environment.yale.edu/kotchen/pubs/revDSTpaper.pdf\">A Yale economist</a> found that there was actually a 1% increase in energy consumption when Indiana switched to daylight savings time statewide in 2006 - estimating a cost of $9 millionI guess Ben Franklin forgot to include air conditioning in his economic forecasts.How\u2019s that for a tangent this Monday morning! Nothing wrong with being curious about things that aren\u2019t just sports.Alright on to today\u2019s question ---Daniel from New Hampshire \u2013\u201cHi Brian \u2013 big fan of your podcast, I\u2019m a high school junior and our entire athletic department and all of my friends listen as often as we can. \u00a0I\u2019m starting to narrow the field for my coming college decisions, I want to major in sports management, and pursue a career in Major League Baseball. What suggestions do you have for this process and how I should go about it?\u201dDaniel, great question, in fact, I get this one about once or twice a week, so it feels like a good time to have this conversation again.For all of you who are already in college, or grad school, or out of school \u2013 there are parts of this conversation that will be extremely relevant to you as well, so don\u2019t tune out. For those of you with education decisions still ahead of you\u2026 buckle up and listen.A little history lesson to start. When I want to college in the early \u201990s there was really no such thing as a Sports Management degree. There were business and management courses, but nothing with a focus on sports.In fact, between 1980-2010, the number of undergraduate sports management programs grew from just three in the U.S\u2026. to over 300.I just did some quick research on our sister site DegreesinSports.com and they have over 600 sports-related bachelor...","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/c4a8af5b-6bf4-410d-a1c6-a08a46c7ec53/wispod-cover.png"}